There's something poetic about sending Captain Kirk to space for the Colson Center.

I'm John Stone Street with The Point.

Last week, William Shatner became the oldest person to travel to space, and his emotional response after touching down was priceless.

He told Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos, I hope I never recover from this.

I hope I can maintain what I feel now. I don't want to lose it.

Here's a 90-year-old and childlike wonder, experiencing

that almost spiritual part of space travel reflected by so many astronauts throughout history.

It's often called the overview effect. It's when space raises this deep sense of insignificance

and a longing for significance. Pioneers have traveled by plane probably thought that it could

never bore anyone, but here

we are and it does, like anything else that becomes normal.

Maybe it's because the only thing that can permanently ground our wonder is God himself,

who put eternity into the human heart, and he placed us in an incredibly beautiful universe

that ultimately points us back to him.

That's the only thing big enough to sustain our wonder.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.